I have my HN name @gmail.com.

I've never actually used that account, because there are too many anonymous Bart Simpsons (and old people who don't understand email addresses) who use that one.

The shitty thing is that I use Google Apps for Your Domain (a.k.a. Dasher/GSuite) to get around this. For years, things like Photos and Music were stuck to my useless Gmail account, because the PMs involved never bothered going through the approvals to get those things to work on custom domain accounts (which Google ret-conned to be for businesses only).

A lot of these are resolved now, but there are still frustrating places where it comes up:

- I pay twice for YouTube Music - once for myself, and once for my family. I can't share my account with them, because it's attached to my domain name.

- I similarly can't join their Google Home accounts to do things like have my voice recognized when I visit them.

- Gemini CLI thinks I'm a business and quotas me like one.